Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-29


EDS. RECORD UNION: l notice an article
in your paper entitled Our Resources
Unknown" signed H., and would like 10
make few comments upon it.
HIS assertions about the ignorance of
the Eastern people concerning Central and
Northern California is correct, and his sug-
gestion to have citrus exhibitions in Den
yer, Kansas City and Chicago is a good one
But sending man TO Omaha would be but
little better than having man stationed at
our own depot, as far as influencing people
to stop here goes. The man or men that
IL. would send to Omaha to work, would
send to st. Louis, Chicago, New York.
Philadelphia, Rochester, Utica, Syracuse
Baltimore, Boston and other prominent
cities. There Is more excitement now in
the Eastern cities above mentioned abont
California than there was in the DAYS of
49, 80, and it is widespread and among
capitalists Hundreds in those cities are
closing their beautiful houses ard going to
Southern California to spend the winter.
We want our citrus exhibit in those East
ern cities. and with each exhibit an inter-
ested Californian who can talk for all there
is in it; who can talk earnest facts, without
any exaggeration, backed up by abundant
proof in his hands. would like toimpress
this fact upon H.-that when the Eastern
man or woman starts from their home
tic destination is fixed, ard no person
meeting them at Omaha can change 1t.
We must make our resources and adj
vantages known to them at their homes be-
fore they take their departure. The writer
has lately been East and travelled extcn-
slvely through the New England and Mid
die States. and can verify all that he saws,
and much more. Both of our southern
roads are flooded with papers and highly
embellished pamphlets, oxtolling Southern
California 1t was the same, to a great ex.
tent, on the principal lines going East from
St. Louis aud Chicago, in fact the writer
found them scattered about in the depots
at Gardiner, Hallowell and Augusta, away
down in Maine.
Now, word concerning our fruits. The
writer being frait-gToWeT, visited many of
the principal fruit stores IN the East
ern cities. both wholesale and re-
tail, and in almost every ius- auce found
fruit selling for Los Augelese fruit
that upon close inspection of the crates
found the shippers or grower s stencil, and
IN most cases they We're from Sacramento
Sonoma and Napa, with W r. Strong.
Earl, Gregory, or the California Union as
shippers. Upon protesting with the seller
against selling Sacramento fruit as Los An
geles grown he would reply that Sacra-
mento was a suburb and shipping station
for Southern California. Until something
is dohe 10 correct this impression of the
Eastern people concerning this section, we
will only get the overflow of the new ex-
odus from the East to Southern California.
Wherever the writer went he found earn
est and eager listeners to his talk of Cali
fornia. To those who were going to South
ern California he said go, it is a beautiful
country, but Central California can discount
1t in every respect. Reporters of different
papers came to the house where the writer
was visiting, and listened for hours and
questions innumerable con-
corning California. a.